Leaked photos of LG’s upcoming G Pro 2 suggest the phone will have a little more in common with the G2 than its predecessor. (Credit: DC Inside) The photos come via Korean site DC Inside and show a phone with the same rear power button and volume control configuration as the LG G2. The white …

With Lenovo buying Motorola from Google, it instantly became the number three smartphone vendor globally. Lenovo’s Vibe X smartphone. (Credit: Lenovo) At least, that’s according to analyst firm Strategy Analytics. On its blog the company notes that taken together, Lenovo and Motorola have a 6 per cent global market share when it comes to smartphones — based on the firm’s …

If you buy into the hype, the future of home entertainment will involve screens that gently curve — apparently ‘mimicking the shape of the human eye’. But do they really add anything to the viewing experience? Samsung’s 85-inch bending TV. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Curved TVs certainly hogged the spotlight at CES, mostly because of Samsung’s 110-inch Ultra HD behemoth — …

Hot on the heels of last week’s run of hardware rumours, @evleaks has posted purported screenshots of the new-look Galaxy S5 home screen. More from that Samsung home screen. pic.twitter.com/5Z0jKKxXYN — @evleaks (@evleaks) January 19, 2014 Some commentators have suggested the interface looks like Google Now, but we’d argue it’s more akin to a cross between BlinkFeed on the HTC …

New research data from the NPD Group shows that Samsung and Apple have a stranglehold on the US smartphone market, making up 68 percent of all phone sales. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Apple alone accounted for 42 percent of the market in Q4 2013, up from 35 percent last year. Samsung, meanwhile, had slightly slower growth, up from 22 percent to …

Phil Zimmerman, the man behind early email encryption technology PGP, has a vision for a smartphone that places “privacy and control directly in the hands of its users”. The Blackphone: It’s where style meets privacy, backers say. (Credit: Blackphone/CNET) Called the Blackphone, the smartphone uses a security-focused build of Android called PrivatOS. The idea behind the phone is to create …

LG has announced that its G Flex phone — one of two commercially available curved smartphones — will be available in Australia from February. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) The phone will be a Harvey Norman exclusive, and have an RRP of AU$999, although the Harvey Norman site is currently taking pre-orders for AU$988. However, LG is recommending it for the Optus …

Rumours have been flying about Nokia working on an Android smartphone and now images have leaked, supposedly showing the phone in action. The image from @seamissu. (Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) The leaks came from a Twitter account named @seamissu and were directed at well known smartphone insider, @evleaks. The photos apparently originated on Chinese social networking site Weibo. The potential …

The Galaxy S5 is, apparently, only a few short months away from launch. Here’s what we might be able to expect from Samsung. Plastic cases could be optional for the S5. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) With a few bits of information on the S5 tantalisingly delivered at CES 2014, the Internet rumour mill has spun into an overdrive normally reserved for …

Now playing: Watch this: CES 2014: final show wrap 5:10 With a show as big as CES, it’s always hard to distil it down to just a few key themes and products. But that certainly isn’t going to stop us from trying. In our last daily wrap video, we look at what ‘wowed’ at CES and what left us scratching …